Women's health after 40, and what the research actually supports
Reading probiotic strain names, CFU at manufacture versus expiry, prebiotics versus synbiotics, and antibiotic timing.
These two genera appear together on nearly every probiotic label, usually presented as a matched pair. They aren’t. They live in different parts of the gut, tolerate oxygen differently, metabolise sugars by different pathways — and one of them isn’t really a resident at all. Different addresses The gut is not one environment. Oxygen … Read more
The probiotic CFU count on packaging has been climbing for years. Ten billion, fifty billion, a hundred billion. The honest answer to whether that helps isn’t a flat no. It’s that dose-response exists for some outcomes and not for others — and the packaging number rarely tells you which one you’re buying. The answer … Read more
Send a stool sample to a company, get back a report naming hundreds of bacteria with percentages beside each one. The precision of the gut microbiome test is impressive. Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology decided to check that precision. They sent identical sample material to seven testing services and compared … Read more